All about Almodovar : A Passion for Cinema

by Epps, Brad

• ISBN13: 9780816649617
• ISBN10: 0816649618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-29
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

One of world cinemas most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, andabove allentertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst on the international film scene in the early 1980s. All about Almodvar offers new perspectives on the filmmakers artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques.

Author Biography

Brad Epps is professor of romance languages and literatures and chair of studies in women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Introduction Approaching Almodóvar: Thirty Years of Reinvention Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki	p. 1
Forms and Figures
Almodóvar on Television: Industry and Thematics	p. 37
Queer Sound: Musical Otherness in Three Films by Pedro Almodóvar	p. 51
Performing Identities in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar	p. 71
Acts of Violence in Almodóvar	p. 101
Heart of Farce: Almodóvar's Comic Complexities	p. 118
Melodrama and Its Discontents
Mimesis and Diegesis: Almodóvar and the Limits of Melodrama	p. 141
Melancholy Melodrama: Almodovarian Grief and Lost Homosexual Attachments	p. 166
Intimate Strangers: Melodrama and Coincidence in Talk to Her	p. 193
The Limits of Representation
Almodóvar's Girls	p. 241
All about the Brothers: Retroseriality in Almodóvar's Cinema	p. 267
Blind Shots and Backward Glances: Reviewing Matador and Labyrinth of Passion	p. 295
Missing a Beat: Syncopated Rhythms and Subterranean Subjects in the Spectral Economy of Volver	p. 339
Postnostalgia in Bad Education: Written on the Body of Sara Montiel	p. 357
The Auteur In Context
Inside Almodóvar	p. 389
Pepi, Patty, and Beyond: Cinema and Literature in Almodóvar	p. 408
Bad Education: Fictional Autobiography and Meta-Film Noir	p. 429
Coda
Volver: A Filmmaker's Diary	p. 446
Filmography of Pedro Almodóvar	p. 465
Contributors	p. 467
Index	p. 471
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